Offline Questions

[doodle]

Playing offline for the first time and have a few questions:
1. I'm starting out on the first PSU (non-expansion) - can I use ethan in the expansion or does it have to go through a character in extra mode to move to the expansion.
2. If extra mode, do I have to do the entire story or just unlock it ?
3. Is there a list of where things drop offline or is it the same as online?
4. Is there an ideal time to move my character to the expansion?- I heard some items are more rare than the expansion than in the original.

Thanx in advance

[Weeaboolits]

1. Extra mode
2. just unlock it after a couple chapters, forget which.
3. original PSU doesn't have a lot of worthwhile drops, most good items are from the NPC or from S-ranking.
4. Get whittil wings before porting it over, it's harder to get in AoI.

[Mark87]

2. you get extra mode after chapter 4 but as you progress in story mode more missions at the flyer base and items at stores become available in extra mode so i would suggest beating story mode to get the full experiance

[doodle]

Is there an offline guide anywhere where things drop such as whittil wing or is it random?

[Weeaboolits]

Whittil Wing and Dagger of Serafi drop in HIVE, the last area you unlock.

[Dhylec]

Check the sticky in Gameplay forum for offline guides.
http://www.pso-world.com/forums/showthread.php?t=93419

[doodle]

Another quick question- to synth different weapons(Striking, range,etc) can you do it on one machine equally or need to reset it for different ones like online?